Belmont report: Now available
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The environmental problems facing today’s society cannot be overcome by a single nation or a single scientific discipline. Responding to these challenges demands highly coordinated and collaborative research and service agendas. At the request of funders of international global change research, ICSU assembled a panel to conduct an analysis of the international research capability to respond to the Belmont Challenge of delivering knowledge to support human action and adaptation to regional environmental change.
The panel proposes a research agenda to provide the scientifically based information needed by local, national and international decision makers, as they take actions for the benefit of society and environmental sustainability. This agenda will mobilize the full spectrum of scientific disciplines. Reducing vulnerability and increasing resilience to environmental stress is a unifying goal of the diverse communities involved in these issues.
